LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 503982 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL, LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, PORTLAND HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED

Education of girls aged 3 years to 18 years

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £61,288 for the year ended 31 July 2024, with total unrestricted funds standing at £4,365,051. The trustees confirmed that cash reserves are adequate to meet obligations as they fall due, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. The charity holds two dormant subsidiaries and participates in defined benefit pension schemes, noting a £1,527 actuarial loss on the ISPS scheme.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Somerbys Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr John Partridge — Headteacher (source)
• Mrs Constanze Wagner-Lees — Deputy Headteacher (source)
• Mrs Sarah Davies — Head of the Junior Department (source)
• Ms Stefanie Shaw — Bursar (source)
• Mr M Ryman — Assistant Head - Director of Sixth Form (source)
• Mr A McMurray — Assistant Head – Whole School Co-curricular & Enrichment (source)
• Mrs J Rose — Assistant Head – Community & Wellbeing (source)
• Mrs S Rastall — Assistant Head Learning Development & School SENCO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Carrollchair
• Dhara Bhogaita
• Dimple Chandarana
• MARY NEILSON
• Paul Robert Hitchcock
• Priyal Hasmukhbhai Tank
• Ruth Jolin
• Susan Siesage

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEICESTERSHIRE INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• LEICESTERSHIRE INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £7.2m
• LEICESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL TRUST income £235.7m
• THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND LEEDS GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £617k
• LEICESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• RED HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.9m

Side by side with its peers

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